GDHC1263

Course Descriptions

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the diversity of the development of Southeast Asian civilization before the rise of modernizing indigenous states and Western imperialism from earliest times to 1500. Crossing both national and regional perspectives, this course introduces key elements of Southeast Asian history, geography, language, popular beliefs, artistic achievement, maritime and overland trade, state formation, gender and social relations. Throughout the course students are guided to identify and recognize Southeast Asian region’s interactions with the outside world, such as India and China, and enhance their comparative analytical and critical thinking skills by examining the ways in which Southeast Asians adapted new external ideas and technologies that shape the lives of mass populations and the civilization of each nation in the modern day Southeast Asia.

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